Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The term “customer experience” (CX) has gained considerable currency recently, and in many ways has displaced “customer service” as the focal point of the contact center. Here are some implications for contact center leaders to consider in making the right buying decisions.

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

But evolving to an interaction strategy is now within your grasp. The post A Contact Center “Channel Strategy” Was Your Only Option. appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained. Until recently, you had choice but to operate with a channel-driven strategy.

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Call Experts

APRIL 8, 2024

Today, customer support plays a pivotal role in maintaining and growing a loyal customer base, enticing many companies to hire a contact center for their answering services. Ultimately, a well-managed contact center can be the lifeline of your customer service operations. Consider the following questions.

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VDS

MAY 21, 2024

To meet today’s high customer expectations, businesses are increasingly turning to a blend of AI technology and human interaction. By integrating these technologies, contact centers are transforming their operations to be more efficient and responsive, ultimately striving to improve the overall customer experience with every interaction.

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Upstream Works

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Digital transformation is a central technology theme for all businesses in 2022, and it’s especially important for contact centers. Expectations around customer experience (CX) are increasingly being shaped by digital technologies, and customers have generally been adopting them faster than contact centers.

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SaleMove

JULY 21, 2023

By implementing a holistic interaction platform, insurance companies can improve KPIs like first call resolution and average handle time, reducing operating costs. The post Deriving Value from the Insurance Contact Center appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 26, 2024

From Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) to Unified Interaction Management, explore how this evolution empowers businesses and increases overall satisfaction. The post On the Horizon: Beyond CCaaS to Unified Interaction Management (UIM) appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

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VDS

JUNE 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a vital role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. As businesses strive to meet evolving customer expectations, adopting a cloud contact center solution has become a strategic imperative. Let’s begin!

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SaleMove

MARCH 1, 2024

How to evolve to a staffing & operational model that unifies and takes control over ALL of your customer interactions. Imagine: 1 unified interaction team. The post The Rise and Efficiency of a Unified Interaction Team appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Technology Fuels Contact Center Transformation.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The title of this blog post is an important question that many executives are asking. To learn more about the viability of IVAs and limits of zero-footprint contact centers, please see DMG’s white paper, Will Robots Make Live Agents Obsolete? The post Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Contact Center Agents?

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 7, 2021

AI has many valuable uses in the contact center, from providing data and channel options to reducing costs. With AI enabling better forms of self-service, automation can address many contact center challenges with limited cost impact or added strain to the existing pool of agents. Managing Routine Inquiries.

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COPC

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

These changes were highlighted during the Optimizing Pandemic Contact Center Outsourcing Relationships pre-event workshop that COPC Inc. This significant shift to non-voice interactions presents an excellent opportunity to improve agent training and update chat-specific KPIs. WFH Insights. Competitive Sourcing Insights.

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Upstream Works

MAY 13, 2020

Every contact center has a universal goal: to provide exceptional customer service. As we continue to social distance, self isolate and get used to a new normal, it’s more important than ever for contact centers to focus on their overall strategy. But doing so isn’t always that simple. CX Strategy. Management.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 12, 2022

The demands facing contact center systems are getting more complex and more varied than ever before. Driven by a desire to cut costs with operational efficiencies and provide a better omnichannel experience to an increasingly digital customer base, executives are honing in to upskill their contact centers.

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VDS

JANUARY 10, 2024

At VDS, we believe in making your cloud contact center journey as seamless as possible. Do you want to maximize the potential of your contact center? Do you want to maximize the potential of your contact center? Are memorable customer interactions a priority for you? Is VDS Right for You?

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SaleMove

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

By automatically matching the right interaction to each customer with Unified Interaction Management, it is possible to improve results in 4 categories. The post Improve Your Bottom Line with Unified Interaction Management appeared first on Glia Blog | Digital Customer Service Explained.

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CSM Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

When selecting a contact center to assist your company, you want more than outsourced services. In order to get there, you need to partner with a contact center that places employees and their training as its highest priorities. Protel BPO agents are selected from a fast-growing contact center labor pool.

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VDS

JUNE 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a vital role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. As businesses strive to meet evolving customer expectations, adopting a cloud contact center solution has become a strategic imperative. Let’s begin!

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If agents are frustrated, we can only imagine that the customers they’re speaking with are too. Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. It’s our thing.

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Stella Connect

JANUARY 20, 2022

Looking for ideas for how to create the best customer service training program for your contact center? So there’s no time like the present to create the best customer service training program for your contact center. 3: DO: Know when group training is most appropriate (and when it’s not).

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Think Customers

JANUARY 18, 2022

Customer service interactions can quickly evolve, requiring different channels and tools. The same is true for a call that begins with an interactive voice response (IVR) system. To better understand this, let’s dive into the human and robotic makeup of a modern contact center. What is a contact center associate?

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VDS

MARCH 17, 2023

Customer engagement and contact centers are critical components of any business’s success. They serve as the primary means for organizations to interact with customers, resolve issues, and improve customer satisfaction. This article will focus on two popular contact center solutions: Genesys PureConnect and Genesys Cloud.

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Think Customers

APRIL 28, 2022

As retailers contend with the latest slate of challenges—inflation, snarled supply chains, the return to experience spending—there’s no overstating the importance of having a high-quality contact center. What is the difference between a captive contact center and outsourcing? Hiring the right people.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. Self-service tools empower customers to reach out to agents for more complex interactions, like those requiring judgment and empathy. More Blogs Menu.

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Stella Connect

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’s why the service interactions taking place between your agents and your customers matter so much during the holiday season. Rather than thinking of service interactions as a line of defense against angry customers’ demands, they should be seen as opportunities to build customer loyalty. Know What Types of Inquiries to Expect.

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SaleMove

JUNE 16, 2020

If we’re talking about scheduled interactions with specific people at the company then virtual meetings may be enough. But when it comes to high-volume, inbound, multi-channel conversations, Zoom-like interactions just weren’t built for that. If you think you’re on a lot of calls nowadays, think about a Contact Center agent.

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Call Experts

JUNE 3, 2021

How to enhance the client experience in an age of quickly progressing tech with contact center services? You understand that having a high-quality contact center service is essential to running an effective business. . Contact us. Contact center services are here to stay. Microsoft ).

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Uniphore

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Contact centers can have the best customer service agents and the latest and greatest technology. Contact center leaders have a lot on their plate–from ensuring customer satisfaction and encouraging technology adoption to keeping agents happy and well-trained. Experience on the Frontline.

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 5, 2021

As momentum continues to build for cloud adoption in the contact center space, the business case for supporting this decision becomes clear. These are a few specific examples of how cloud benefits the contact center and any one of these is sufficient to justify the investment. Cloud Flexibility Enables Greater Automation.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 10, 2020

With so much of business shifting to virtual spaces, the contact center has taken on a new kind of prominence that no one could have anticipated. This post is the first in a three-part series examining key issues to help omnichannel contact centers respond effectively during the pandemic. What Customers Really Want.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 18, 2019

There are many technology trends impacting the contact center, and as we enter a new decade, it’s only natural to think in broad terms with a longer-term time horizon. Ten years is an eternity in the world of tech, and it’s staggering to consider how much the contact center has changed over the last decade.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 13, 2018

These reasons are reflected by the CCW Executive Report on Contact Center Priorities for 2018, where increasing the “voice of the customer” strategy is the #3 contact center priority this year. The post Guest Blog: Is Your Contact Center Using the Right Customer Feedback Tool? Observation.

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Cyara

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Per the question in the title of this blog post, let’s examine the phrase, break down the meaning, and then explore how “Last Mile Assurance” is relevant to and important in the context of contact centers and customer experience. The last mile is the make-or-break stage in customer interactions.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 20, 2021

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 5, 2019

This week we feature an article by Irina Kirnos who writes about how chatbots are customer experience tools that are changing the way that companies interact with their customers. These virtual customer experience tools are transforming the way that companies interact with their customers in the contact center environment.

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